Earlier this week, most of the families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting settled with the City of Uvalde in the amount of $2 million. It came as no surprise to learn they also planned to go after other agencies involved in the delayed (some would say terribly botched) response to the active shooter situation. But guess what? There’s more. They filed two additional law suits yesterday, one against a gun manufacturer and the other against a social media giant and a video game company. Yep, you read that right. Video games made him do it.

Even though the DOJ said the blame for what happened that terrible day in Uvalde falls on the police response, plaintiffs’ attorneys are trying to paint a different picture. Considering how quickly attorneys jump on the bandwagon to sue gun manufacturers after a mass shooting, it shouldn’t shock anyone that the families filed against Daniel Defense. It manufactured “AR-15 style rifle an 18-year-old gunman used to kill 19 children and two teachers and injure several others at Robb Elementary two years ago.” Again, the only thing that would surprise me is if Daniel Defense wasn’t included in the additional law suits.

But, it’s the so-called logic behind suing it as well as the parties to the second law suit filed yesterday that has me shaking my head. In the second filing, the plaintiffs named Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, as well as Activision, the company behind the video game Call of Duty (among others).

The complaints contend the three companies are responsible for “grooming” a generation of “socially vulnerable” young men radicalized to live out violent video game fantasies in the real world with easily accessible weapons of war. . . The lawsuits allege Meta and Activision “knowingly exposed the Shooter to the weapon, conditioned him to see it as the solution to his problems, and trained him to use it.”